These goals seem to conflate multiple wishes: > Somewhere where new packages and releases can not only be announced Announcements have limited shelf life. They should be handled via some form of notification mechanism. Perhaps an ELPA section in Sacha's Emacs News would suffice.
> but also commented on and "reviewed". This seems to suggest a review site. (A quick web search suggests that there are frameworks out there to facilitate creating such sites.) That said, posting opinions seems of low value and rarely actionable (see below). > Perhaps also a place where people can post ideas for packages This is a conversation. Would not a mailing list suffice. What is wrong with help-gnu-emacs? > or where abandoned packages can find new maintainers. How would this relate to https://github.com/emacsattic? > Basically anything on the topic of Emacs packages, in one package. Seems too amorphous to be sustainable. My two cents... I am very impressed with Eli's leadership of emacs development. Look at all the goodness that is going into version 29, his commitment to tightening the release cadence, his willingness to say 'no' to both RMS and bikeshedders, etc. To have my support, a proposal should serve to enhance Eli's contributions. More immediately, look at his effort to drive toward better abstraction and unification of the existing find-file and find-sibling-file with Damien Cassou's pending related-files. This is exactly the sort of effort I would hope to support. I see such activities as curation. Thus I could imagine an emacs-curate mailing list. I would be happy to subscribe. /john
